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Friday, August 21, 2015

Ares Kingdom Set Release Date For New Nuclear War Now! Album

Today, Nuclear War Now! Productions sets September 18th as the international release date for Ares Kingdom's The Unburiable Dead. Following the release of their monumental second full-length album, Incendiary, in 2010, Ares Kingdom
took a well-deserved break from recording new material in order to pay
homage to some of their primary musical inspirations with the 2013
release of Veneration, a collection of various cover songs from
the likes Slaughter Lord, R.U. Dead, Sacrilege, Mefisto, and others.
The recording of Veneration was also seen by the band as an
opportunity to experiment with different recording techniques that had
not been previously implemented on their earlier original recordings.
With an evolved sound that resulted from these sessions, Ares Kingdom
then refocused their attention on the writing, rehearsing, and
recording of new original material, which has now culminated in their
third full-length offering, The Unburiable Dead, an album which confirms that the best musical product results from patient and diligent attention to detail.

With much of its musical pedigree having originated and developed from
its members’ direct and indirect connections to the legendary Order From
Chaos, Ares Kingdom has once again demonstrated its
uncanny ability to successfully intertwine exceptional songwriting and
musicianship with superior thematic and lyrical content. As with their
prior releases, the seven tracks on The Unburiable Dead are
relentless, scorching examples of metal fire and blood influenced not
singularly from one, but instead from several sub-categories of
black/death/thrash metal. Thematically, the lyrics examine and reflect
the world-shattering conflagration of the Great War for Civilisation
(1914-1918) in brutally stark and agonizing, but equally artful terms.
With the opening track, “Ubique” (Latin for “everywhere” and the motto
of Britain’s Royal Artillery), the album traces the origins of the war
before moving on to reflect the naïve optimism of the war’s early
combatants with “Nom de Guerre” and the breakdown of the original ‘war
of movement’ into the deadly stalemate and attrition of fortifications
and trenches with “Salient and Redoubt.” The fourth track, “Demoralize,”
reflects the waste and futility endured by both sides, which is
followed by “Writhe: Fettered to a Corpse,” the album’s lone
instrumental track with its title derived from a Hindenburg-attributed
quote. The final two tracks, “The Unburiable Dead” and “Stultifera
Navis (Armistice and League),” recount the final stages of the war,
first from the soldier’s entrenched point of view as it lurches to an
end, and then with the outbreak of joy and relief on the homefront upon
its conclusion, which was ironically followed by the disastrous peace
process that ensued.

Nuclear War Now! is proud to conspire again with Ares Kingdom in the release of The Unburiable Dead
on both LP and CD formats. The artwork appropriately chosen to adorn
all versions features “The Pit” by ‘degenerate artist’ George Grosz
(1893-1959), whose despair over the destruction, terror, and death that
nationalism had brought to his country through this conflict is readily
apparent. Other powerful artwork and photographs present in the 12-page
CD and 8-page gatefold LP booklets serve as illuminative thematic
backdrops for the lyrics featured on each page and include works by
American artist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), British artist Christopher
R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946), German artist Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser
(1884-1965), and French artist Georges Le Roux (1877-1957). All LP
versions also include an A2 poster, and the die-hard edition boasts an
additional Ares Kingdom poster flag and sticker. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:Tracklisting for Ares Kingdom's The Unburiable Dead1. Ubique
2. Nom de Guerre
3. Salient and Redoubt
4. Demoralize
5. Writhe: Fettered to a Corpse
6. The Unburiable Dead
7. Stultifera Navis (Armistice and League)

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